Friday, August 31, 2012

Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s response to a question on malnutrition in an interview with Wall Street Journal
During an interview with Wall Street Journal Chief Minister Narendra
Modi gave elaborate answer to a question regarding malnutrition.
Mr Modi said, “We are the first state in the country to raise the
issue of malnutrition. It came to our mind that Gujarat is by and large a
vegetarian state. And secondly, Gujarat is also a middle-class state.
The middle class is more beauty conscious than health conscious – that
is a challenge. If a mother tells her daughter to have milk, they’ll
have a fight. She’ll tell her mother, ‘I won’t drink milk. I’ll get
fat.’ They have money but she’s beauty conscious, she’s not health
conscious. So being a middle-class state is also a problem for me. A
large segment of the population in my state is middle-class. Second is
vegetarianism.
“So a lot needs to be explained to both the beauty conscious and the
health conscious. We have to request to them that there should be a good
nutritional situation. We gave a budget of 700 crore rupees ($126
million). But these things are such that you see a sudden change in a
child after the age of 13-14 years. They grow up so fast – from zero to
13 you don’t come to know how they got so big. So we are going through
that stage.” he said.
“Even after a lot of improvement – we still have to measure
(malnutrition), conduct surveys. Until that is done, this perception
will remain. But I’m quite confident. We will try to get a drastic
change in this. Just as we’ve become a model in the electricity sector,
Gujarat is going to come up as a model in this also. I can’t make any
big claims, because I don’t have a survey in front of me yet”, he added.
It is noteworthy that Gujarat government is taking a range of
measures to tackle malnutrition problems, including ramping up spending
on rural health workers, modernizing nutrition centers, and trying to
better track young pregnant women.

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